0 facebook X.com reddit China is an important market for Apple, in addition to the fact that it is the largest production center. Nevertheless, it seems that the fight against Apple sales in the country is far from the end, according to the recently published sending data.
Data from the Chinese Academy of Information and Communication Technologies (CAICT) observed using Digitimes cover the supply of smartphones in March 2025. It turned out that the total annual increase in smartphones by 6.5%.
Broken, it seems that the advantages of increasing supplies are felt by local brands. While supplies reached 22.73 million units, 92% of this total were Chinese brands, which is 18.4%.
the remaining 8% or 1.85 million units consist of non-Chinese brands, and the iPhone is the vast majority of the total. Nevertheless, in March 2024, the delivery of the brand of smartphones was almost twice by 3.84 million units.
on a quarterly basis, the total supply of smartphones in China increased by 3.3% in annual calculus to 69.67 million units. Chinese brands increased by 9%, and non -Chinese brands fell by more than 25%.
continuing problems with China
Apple finances rely on Chinese income to the point. The financial results of the 2nd quarter of 2025 showed that Big China is 16.8% of the total income.
Although the change in the income from Greater China in the annual calculus was relatively flat by -2.3% per quarter, this is the market with which Apple had problems in recent years. Q2 2025 is the seventh quarter in a row when Apple saw the shrinkage of revenue in the annual calculation for large China.
for the last time when Apple saw a significant increase in the income of Big China in the first quarter of 2022. This was at the end of five quarters of two -digit growth, including a quarter with an increase in years by 87.5%.
right now Apple has to deal with the consequences of the tariff war in the United States, in which the presidential administration Donald Trump uses extremely high tariffs for Chinese imports in the USA
even when rethinking in China, offering encouraging Disco to tire the falling iPhone, which cannot be enough, not persistent to the tariff.
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